by Mary McAuliffe
I can't recommend this one more. The only thing I really felt it was lacking was a color insert of the wonderful art that is being discussed. I accidentally read the sequel, which covers 1900-1920, first. Both are first-class. It is astonishing how many of the cultural elite knew each other,...
I can't stress enough how ignorant I was about this time in history. Certainly, I knew the names (except Morisot's) and I knew Impressionism, but otherwise: zip. So as someone who had virtually no knowledge of the subject material going in, I found this book to be easy to read and well-written in...
You know when you've convinced yourself you've done something only to turn around and realize it was your brain playing a trick on you? Apparently 3-4 reviews completely fell through the cracks; this was one and that's horrible because this book was quite an experience for me. I'll confess, French...
Dawn of the Belle Époque has a cast of hundreds, but because many of them are well known, including Zola, Monet, Marie Curie, Gustave Eiffel, Debussy, and Sarah Bernhardt, it’s not hard to keep track of them. Details of individual lives are reported, I learned for instance that Degas was petulant, c...
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